Changing Tunes

The Friends of Tenison Woods College (Old Scholars Association) is very pleased to announce the five 2017 ‘Shining Light’ award recipients. The awards aim to recognise significant contributions made by former students, families or staff to our local and global community in order to inspire current and future students about the essence of our community and their call to service.

Year 11 Retreat
Last week a group of 104 Year 11 students and staff travelled to Halls Gap for their annual retreat. The theme of the retreat was ‘What does it mean to be human?’ Students were provided with opportunities to reflect on what is at the core of their lives, what they value and how to build connections with self, others, God and creation.

The retreat began with a ‘Welcome to Country’ at Brambuk Cultural Centre where the highly engaging Dreaming Story of the region was re-told through story and animation. The theme of being respectful to the land and the people continued through the activities of the following three days.

Students and staff enjoyed the opportunity to relax away from the College environment and participate in a range of large and small group activities as well as time outside appreciating the beautiful setting of the Grampians National Park.

Youth Mass
During the holidays, there will be two Youth Masses. The first on Sunday 9 July and the other a fortnight later on Sunday 23 July. Both masses are at 5.00pm and we would love to see you there.

Parish Mass in the College Chapel

• Thursday 6 July, 9.15am – Year 11

Michelle Coote | APRIM - Assistant Principal Religious Identity and Mission

End of semester reports are now available for parents to view via the Parent Access Module (PAM). Students will be able to access their end of year reports via SIMON.

To login to PAM click here

For instructions and details on how to access reports via PAM click here

Reports can be downloaded as a PDF file and viewed on a PC or mobile device and printed if a hard copy is preferred.

Hard copies can also be printed by students at school, or by using the PAM kiosk that is located in the front office gallery.

To assist with this process a direct link to the PAM login and PAM instructions help pages will be highlighted on the College website.

If you require further help to access your child's end of semester report, please contact the front office staff.

If you have misplaced your PAM Login please email pam@tenison.catholic.edu.au

Dedicated support will also be available on Friday 7 July between 9.00am and 12.00pm in the Pam Ronan Centre, should you require further assistance.

If you have any further questions regarding your child's end of semester report or any aspect of SIMON - the College's learning management system, please contact Scott Dickson on dicksc@tenison.catholic.edu.au or on (08) 87 244 651.

Scott Dickson | Director of Learning

The Timor-Leste Immersion trip is well underway, with the group of students and staff enjoying a busy first day. They started the day walking around Laleia (the village they are staying in) to see the rice fields and the town centre. They were showed around the local parish and visited the library and the radio station. Next on the agenda was helping build a path around some outdoor seating where masses are held. It was hard work, shovelling and pushing wheelbarrows around, but everyone did their bit. After lunch they all headed to the village of Cairui to celebrate mass with the kids who had finished their sacrament program. They then had to deal with a power outage during tea, but are looking forward to more adventures over the next few days.

Keep up to date on their adventures via our Facebook page over the next week!

Please click 'read more' to see some photos from the trip so far.

Bernadette Fisher | Immersion Organiser

As I move into the next phase of my life, retirement, I would like to say thank you and farewell to students and families I have worked with over the past 15 years as Student Counsellor at Tenison Woods College. I will take with me many memories during my time at the College. It has been a special place to work bringing with it lots of rewards.

To Parents; a special thank you for your friendship and support as we worked together to find solutions for the many issues that we have faced together as well as the programs that have been presented to and for the wellbeing of your children.

To the many students who have trusted me, worked with me and offered me friendship; thank you and may I wish you every success in everything you do now and in your future lives.

God Bless.

Judy Renney | School Counsellor

Tenison Woods College Netballers are competing at the Waverley International Schools Netball Championships in Melbourne. Both teams remain undefeated as at today, with two days left of competition. We wish the girls the very best of luck for the rest of the Carnival, and will update results as they become available.

Score Update:

JUNIORS

• Won 22-6 against Waluku College(NZ)
• Won 33-9 against Blackwood High School
• Won 44-1 against Alkira High School

SENIORS

• Won 31-8 against Waluku College (NZ)
• Won 39-8 against Box Hill High School 2 side
• Won 53-7 against Blackwood High School

Year 12 student Olivia Fuller has been successful in gaining selection in the Allies team (Northern Territory, South Australia and Tasmania) in round 2 of the 2017 NAB AFL Women's Championships. She will travel to Queensland in July where she will have the opportunity to play against the best female under 18 footballers in the country. Olivia will also be involved in education programs that prepare her for playing AFL at the highest level. The 2017-18 NAB AFL Women’s Academy squad will also be selected from the Championship matches.

We wish Olivia the best of luck with her future endeavours in football!

Kate Exelby | Athlete Welfare Manager - Titans High Performance Sports Program

Tenison Woods College offers scholarships for full or partial remission of tuition fees to students entering Year 8 and 11 for the following year.

Scholarship applications for 2018 will close on 7 July 2017. For information on criteria and to download an application form, please click here.

Alternatively, information and application forms are available at the Front Office.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is an invitational program for students in years 8-12 which allows students to use their own tablet or laptop for classwork at school.

With the end of financial year upon us and NBN rollout nearing completion, there have been many catalogs and advertisements highlighting the endless list of devices available.

To assist parents, caregivers and students, the Portal@TWC website contains BYOD program help and device guidelines. To access the site:

Open the Portal@TWC site tenison.catholic.edu.au/parent-information, or Google ‘Portal@TWC’
Select the ‘Parent Information’ tab at the top to view the steps, from invitation to device setup.

NBN internet connectivity is well worth considering if available in your area, as the rollout has provided even greater connectivity to school ICT services such as Citrix Xendesktop and Office365.

If you have any questions about BYOD or the school’s ICT services, please contact the ICT department via the ‘Contact ICT’ tab on the Portal@TWC website.

Colin Langford | ICT Manager

Tenison Woods College year 9 students Madison Haggett and Emily Close have been selected to represent South Australia Country Team. This year the u16s Australian Junior Basketball Championship is being held in Perth Western Australia.

Representing the state in these teams form a vital pathway from participation through to elite competition for the nation’s junior athletes, allowing young Australian basketballers to display their talents against the best athletes in their age group from across the country and provide a pathway to progress through junior and youth programs, to hopefully one day represent Australia.

The u16 women are also coached by head of Titans High Performance program Daniel Stratford who is lead assistant coach with the South Australian State women’s program.

South Australia Country play their first game at 10.00am WAST (12.30 Mount Gambier time) against A.C.T. on July 8.
You can follow the girls games on http://basketball.net.au/championships/u16s-australian-junior-championship/

Kate Exelby | Athlete Welfare Manager - Titans High Performance Sports Program

School holidays are almost here! If you require vacation care for your child, don’t forget to make a booking before the program fills up. OSHC will also be open on the student free day on Monday 24 July.

Click here to see the Vacation Care Program.
Click here to see the 24 July student free day program.

For bookings, phone: (08) 8724 4633 or email: oshc@tenison.catholic.edu.au

At the end of our Auskick program, a group of Year 2 students are selected to play half time at an AFL match. This year these 8 lucky students enjoyed their time in the spotlight at the the Carlton V Crows match at the MCG on 1 July.  

• Banjo Morgan
• Hamish Gordon
• Lachlan Moss
• Eamon Wombwell
• Harrison Xanthopoulos
• Scott McBain
• Cooper Fear
• Samuel Wallace 

Grant Lean | Teacher (Early Learning – Yr 7 Sport Co-ordinator)

As term 3 approaches, drop into the front office and pick up a College umbrella for $35!

The 8/9 Girls Football team have yet again been successful within the SESSSA 8/9 Knockout Competition, winning their second round game against Nuriootpa at Tintinara Football Oval on Friday 30 June.

The Titans girls played an outstanding first half of the game, scoring 2 easy goals against the opposition, creating a score of 2.5 to 0.1.

In the second half, the ball didn't leave our side of the field due to a great effort by all of our players. Unfortunately, Nuriootpa's defence were in overdrive, making it difficult to for the girls to kick between the goal posts. However, they were still able to maintain their lead, winning their second round and progressing them to the semi-final. 

The goal kickers for the day were Tulle Perryman (2) and Ella Little (1).

Best players were awarded to Kayleigh Taylor, Emmason Ilsley, Ellen Brown, Charlotte Bruhn and Charlotte Turner.

Well done to everyone involved and good luck to the girls for their future game.

Morgan Fisher | PE Administration Trainee

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Thursday 6 July

• Whole School Assembly, 12.00pm, Barrie Holmes Stadium
• ELCC Graduation, 2.00pm, ELCC

Friday 7 July

• Term 2 concludes for students - 2.15pm for Junior School and 2.20pm for Middle and Senior School.

Sunday 9 July

• Youth Mass, 5.00pm, Saint Paul's Church

Monday 24 July

• Student Free Day - this professional development day for staff will focus on our action research learning in the classroom and how we are listening to the individual learner.

Tuesday 25 July

• School resumes for all students except our Year 10’s who will be on work experience.

Throughout all areas of the college, NAIDOC Week 2017 has been richly observed and celebrated. The week emphasises the role that Aboriginal languages play in cultural identity, linking people to their land and water and in the passing on of Aboriginal history, spirituality and rites, through story and song. The 2017 National theme is “Our Languages Matter”.

Classrooms have been busy creating products to acknowledge the week, engaging in activities and participating inclusively between the sub schools. While individual rooms have their own stories, some of the broader whole school initiatives include:

• The unfurling of the new aboriginal flags in the gymnasium
• Each home group receiving a hand painted boomerang ‘gift’ form year 6/7 students for prayer tables
• A variety of ‘dream time’ football matches (black, yellow and red coloured Guernseys)
• Staff vs Student Futsal match.
• Special indigenous prayer liturgies in daily devotions.
• Visits to indigenous ‘Cratibul’ garden
• Flag raising ceremonies
• Buddy classes with dream time story telling
• Face painting – aboriginal flags, dot paint designs
• Weaving demonstration
• Aboriginal music on PA system
• Dot painting
• Bush Tucker BBQ – sampling of crocodile, kangaroo and emu meat
• Sugar Loaf Café offering special indigenous foods

Overall, a wonderful observance of a significant week with rich learning experiences for all students.

Ian Ross | Head of Middle School

Term 3 student timetables will be available on Simon for students and PAM for parents by Wednesday 12 July 2017, the first week of the school holidays. If parents and students in Years 8  to 11 are seeking to source further information regarding their Term 3 timetables, please contact Liza Couzens on 8724 4600 or couzl@tenison.catholic.edu.au.

Throughout Term 2, children in Year 1 have been learning about Fairy Tales. To celebrate this learning they all participated in the annual Year 1 Fairy Tale Day. The children came dressed as their favourite fairy tale character and participated in a number of activities in their classrooms. Children also had an opportunity to write their own fairy tale book (with scaffolding and support from their teachers) and also made an item to go with their book. The books they created were amazing and extremely imaginative as were their creations that they made. At the junior school assembly, they paraded for the junior school to show off their amazing costumes and sang a fairy tale song. Thank you to all parents for your assistance with creating these costumes. 

Kirby Widdison | Year 1 Teacher

Term 2 has seen eight of our Junior School students participate in the school netball competition on Saturday mornings. I would like to congratulate them on a fantastic season, winning 7 out of 7 games and improving immensely throughout the season. Thank you to the parents for braving the cold winter mornings each Saturday. Best of luck for the future with your netball career girls.

Front row: Neve Rossouw, Louise O’Callaghan, Candice Schreiber, Cedar Scott
Back row: Carlee Davey (coach), Matilda Hunt, Halle Zwar, Raine Scott, Samantha Considine

Carlee Davey | Netball coach

Last Wednesday night, the Reception staff and students hosted the annual Reception Art Exhibition. This year’s theme ‘Autumn Inspired’ gave the children a familiar and relatable platform on which to base their works of art. 

Throughout the term, the Reception classes spent time practising techniques and experimenting with a variety of mediums before creating the final pieces for display on the night.  With a focus on ‘their world’ the children observed the changing seasons, reflected on personal experiences and used these as inspiration for their art works.

This year, students displayed up to five pieces of work titled ‘Autumn in My World’, ‘My Leaf’, ‘An Autumn Day’, ‘Autumn Collage’ and ‘Zen-tangle Leaf’. The exhibition was also adorned with brightly painted autumn leaves that the children had fun painting as well.

The smiles and joy on the faces of our youngest students as they shared their work with loved ones really captured why the night is so special, so we truly thank families for supporting the event and joining us on the night.

Katie Window | Reception Teacher

Congratulations to three of our year 7 students, Alyssa Duncan, Amryn Bosko and Sophie Varcoe, for being selected in the SAPSASA state 12 and Under Netball team. The girls will be representing South Australia at the Pacific School Games at Priceline Stadium in Adelaide from 3 – 9 December. Well done!

In Term 3, starting in Week 3, Net Set Go will be commencing in the Tenison Woods College gym from 3:30 - 4:15 every Wednesday. The sessions will run from Week 3 to Week 8. If a student is interested in attending these sessions, they will need to register online and then pay at the front office.

The cost for the sessions is $55.00, which you will need to pay to the Front Office at Tenison Woods College. Please ensure you pay and register by Wednesday 9 August. This is the first day of the program. If you do not pay by this date you will be withdrawn from the program and will not receive a pack.

The payment will include six weeks of netball coaching and the participants will receive a netball, t-shirt and certificate after completion. On the last session during week 8 they will finish off with a game and a BBQ.

This year all packs will be sent to your home address and not to the school so please ensure that those details are correct.

If you have any issues or concerns please feel free to contact Rebecca Edwards on 8725 5455 or edwar@tension.catholic.edu.au.

How to register:

1. netsetgo.asn.au  
2. Click on the 'Find a Centre' tab
3. Click on 'Find a Centre'  
4. Search Tenison Woods College and hit the blue ‘Search’ button.
5. Click the green ‘register’ button and fill in all sections required. (please note if you have already registered as a mynetball member from last year, you will already be in the system)

Remember to pay and register by Wednesday 9 August.

Rebecca Edwards | Net Set Go Coordinator

The grassed area below the road in Marist Park will be unavailable for parking in Term 3 due to the weather conditions at this time of the year. Historically there have been near misses with both vehicles and pedestrians as the area becomes both muddy & slippery. The area will be re-opened for access at the start of Term 4.

Neal Turley | Business Manager

I invite members of our community to express interest in a trip to China in 2018. The trip is being organised by Snowie Aarts in collaboration with Annie Clifford and will be a great chance to reconnect with some of our Chinese sister schools. What a wonderful way to experience China as part of a delegation that is being greeted by our warm and enthusiastic Chinese friends who are keen to repay our hospitality during their recent visits. 

If you are interested please contact Annie Clifford at clifa@tenison.catholic.edu.au.

David Mezinec | Principal

Regular Opening Hours:

• Tuesday 8.00am - 12.00pm
• Thursday 1.00pm - 5.00pm

Holiday Opening Hours:

• Tuesday 18 July - 9.00am - 1.00pm
• Thursday 20 July - 12.00pm - 4.00pm 

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Year 8/9 Girls Soccer
Last Wednesday, the year 8 / 9 girls played a hard fought and competitive game against a well-organised Grant High School side. The team was led expertly by Letitia Izzo who also dominated in defence. She was ably supported by Bella Nelson and Anna Fox on either flank and we welcomed Ella Little and Hayley Vanderhorst to the side at short notice. Despite playing with only 9 outfield players from the start, Emily Hanel did well to keep the Grant strikers at bay. That was until a top corner thunderbolt broke the deadlock, meaning we ended the half 1-0 down. In the second half, I was really pleased that the girls were able to maintain position and create chances going forward. Rose Irakoze epitomized the “never say die” attitude with numerous runs forward from deep inside her own half.  We rode our luck as Grant hit the woodwork twice but we were also unlucky not to find an equalizer in the dying minutes. A loss but a superb effort all round. Well done.

Year 10 Boys Soccer
The combined year 10 boys team were pumped from the start and came out firing against a quick Mount Gambier High School side (which contained many local league representatives). Tenison Woods College dominated the opening exchanges, and it is fair to say, we should have been three nil up early on.  Unfortunately, we didn’t take our chances and as the half wore on, Mount started having more control and began linking up in attack, despite Austin Rossi’s best efforts to disrupt them. Mount Gambier High School broke the deadlock and scored another shortly after, with a quick counter-attack which caught us cold as the half concluded.  So the half-time team talk was thrown up in the air and the boys had to re-group.  We started the second half with belief that one goal would bring more rewards, and Ed Evans was busy on the wing trying to create from out wide. Perhaps our first touch in and around the box let us down and when a third went in from distance, the heads dropped and so did our composure and discipline. The 6-0 final score flattered the opponents and undermined the great 25 minutes we put together in the first half. Overall, hopefully this will be a big learning curve moving forward.    

David Cole | Soccer Coach